For someone who claims no particular adherence, no partisanship, with any of our major political parties, your advice to our govenment to morph itself into an Anglo-Canadian version of the Bloc and embrace a program that Reform, in its wildest days, never dared embrace, is most unwarranted.

The two cousins, Lady Aurora and Lord Cecil Somerset, hail from the hallowed names of the high English aristocracy, but they seem to prefer the rough wilderness of the Great Lakes where they lead a prosperous Anglo-Canadian trading company.

The book went through several French editions, and in 1860 Andrew Bell published it in English, informing his readers that he had tried to do a “moderately free rather than a slavishly literal translation” which was “shaped, to some extent, to meet the reasonable expectations but not to flatter the prejudices of Anglo-Canadian readers.”

I caught myself being aggressive to the point of being rude in Anglo-Canadian terms, because I had internalized the lesson that if I wasn't pushier in these contexts, moss would would have grown over me while waiting at politely for someone to help me at a French university.